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...date, only two councillors--Michael A. Sullivan and Katherine Triantafillou--have officially declared their candidacies, but pundits predict that all incumbent councillors except Jonathan S. Myers will seek re-election...
After four hours of deliberation, a jury convicted Francisco Martin Duran of trying to assassinate President Clinton on Oct. 29. The 26-year-old Duran is scheduled to be sentenced on June 29 and faces life in prison. His lawyers plan to seek a new trial but did not tell reporters on what grounds. Duran, who was portrayed by his defense as a paranoid schizophrenic, was also convicted of assaulting four Secret Service officers, unlawful possession of a rifle and a shotgun, damaging federal property, using a weapon during a crime of violence and transporting a firearm across state lines...
F.D.R., however, proved a reluctant convert; in 1937 he was still pining for a balanced budget, something that Keynesian economists warned would turn the "Roosevelt recession" into another full-fledged depression. Roosevelt's advisers accordingly persuaded him to seek to increase consumption. The answer to the question "What can you do for your country?" became "Consume." Thrift became wasteful, shopping patriotic--laying the groundwork for the I-consume-therefore-I-am society of today...
Three-term Alabama Sen. Howell Heflin said he would not seek re-election next year, bringing to four the number of Senate Democrats who plan to retire. In a speech on the Senate floor, the 73-year-old former chief justice of the Alabama supreme court, who has suffered from a series of medical problems, said "the time to pass the torch to another generation is near." Heflin's decision makes it tougher for Democrats to strengthen their 54-46 Senate minority in the 1996 elections (Alabama is now largely Republican). At least three Democrats -- Sens. Sam Nunn of Georgia...
AILING. CARL SAGAN, 60, mediagenic astronomer; from a rare bone-marrow disease; in Ithaca, New York. Sagan is taking a leave of absence from Cornell to seek treatment for the potentially cancerous condition...